First grow, need help sexing

Hello all, new to the forums - obviously, as well as growing too. This will be my first grow, and I think so far it's doing alright. I am into my 3rd week of flowering after letting it stay in the vegetative stage for 1 month. I am wanting to keep a nice, easy to maintain plant which is why I stuck with the 1 month in veg. It is being grown from bag seed, strain is Green Cheese. My set-up is low-cost. I have a 200w HPS light, and one 70w CFL. Growing in organic soil I put together myself following some online guides. As far as nutes, I am not using any except for Epsom salt in my water which I heard provides a lot of Potassium which our beloved plant loves. So, I've read around where most growers are seeing either pistils or sacks within the 2nd week of flowering.



I am seeing the first signs of flowering, but, the signs are a bit confusing. As you can see above my thumb, there is one growth in the joint, but it's all green. But on the brach above, it appears as though it could be pistils with the little bit of a white tip poking out.

Arrrghh! It's keeelin me man!! But, I'll take your karma for it bro

Time is our master...be patient, they will let you know soon! I know the wait is brutal, especially if it's your first grow, but you will be rewarded for all your TLC in the end. Good luck, keep growing.

Thank you for the encouragement, Squid. Tomorrow I plan to up some pictures of the whole plant, see if I can get any tips. Aside from a few leaves gettin' heat stressed the grow has gone well.

A little advice someone once told me.....be patient not a patient.

I'm in same boat..... I think I have identified at least 3 male in my group, but am hoping its too early too tell.... I was about to rip em out yesterday but saw a few things that encouraged me to wait a few more days to be sure....

what do yall think?

gearmaster said:

I'm in same boat..... I think I have identified at least 3 male in my group, but am hoping its too early too tell.... I was about to rip em out yesterday but saw a few things that encouraged me to wait a few more days to be sure....

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Looks like a female to me! Although it'll be much easier to tell in a few days.

click the link in my sig that says sexing

read the post.... GREAT post.... pics dont show up for me though, so it left a bit open to interpretation....

I am still unsure about the area marked in these pics.... given your post, this could still be either, correct?

looks like a male sorry the male flower look like footballs on a short stem were the females start right at the stalks with tiny white hairs...give it more time

Alpha & Omega said:

Too early to really tell bro, i know its murderous waiting, but patience is a virtue. Lets just be positive for now and say its a she! Congrats, my karma will make it a her anyway now. lol.

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Alpha & Omega, man, you got some BOMB ass Karma! She showed me her private parts today

From seed, I might lengthen your veg. If you are looking for short and bushy, so it's easy to maintain, then do some bending and trimming. I've done quite a few one month veg's from clones that start at about 8 inches tall with big fat root balls. At the end of two weeks in flower they are undeniably female and actually have pretty nice kolas showing for their age, at the end of 4 weeks I'm saying "damn man, I want them now"...what I'm saying is that if that's what you are seeing at the end of three weeks, then I'd definitely try a longer veg. I'm no expert on organic soil...actually, I'm not even a novice. I use Promix with fox farms nutrients. A week prior to switching to flower I give the "open sesame" soluble, it supposedly gives the plant the nutrients it will need for the push to flower. When they are dry following the first application of nutes (about 4-5 days) I put them into flower and give them straight water for the first dose. They'll usually need "open sesame" one more time (of course nutes are every other watering with clean, ph'd water in between), but as soon as I'm seeing pistils and hairs they get switched over to "beastie blooms" the product that helps build girth. The last step is "cha ching" which has the nutrients that help resin production and late flower development.

Everybody's approach seems to come together from a bunch of different posts, so I thought I'd share. Make sure your soil is stocked with the appropriate nutrients at the appropriate times, lengthen the veg a little, and I'd bet you can get her to start showing a little earlier. I like promix because it's neutral and I add what the girls are eating, never had a burn problem either. It could be a strain thing, but even my sativa dominant strains are showing quite a bit at the end of two weeks. Good luck man! I tried to attach a photo of some book entry that someone had posted sometime, I do not claim it to be mine, but I do claim it to be fairly helpful. May you never actually see the male flower!!